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How different would civilization be if humans had "mating season" ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don't care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can't resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them.

How would this impact the civilisation ?

I know about David Brin's *glory season * but not sure whether any other writer explored that idea.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We sortof do, there's a huge cluster of birthdays roughly july to september

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

here's a chart!

what's fascinating to me about this is how people are clearly using medical science to avoid giving birth on certain holidays.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fascinating stuff but is this a global chart or is it limited to a single country? Or hemisphere?

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

judging from the weird void on july 4th, i am guessing it is based on data from the US. probably based on census records.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doctors also influence the avoidance of holidays there

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

that's a good point! nobody wants to do labor of either kind on xmas.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So Christmas?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Or just winter, I think. Lots of people indoors with nothing better to do.

Edit: actually, I'm curious how this chart looks for just the southern hemisphere.